The Third CultureThe Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution is a 1995 book by John Brockman which discusses the work of several well-known scientists who are directly communicating their new, sometimes provocative, ideas to the general public. John Brockman has continued the themes of 'The Third Culture' in the website of the Edge Foundation, where leading scientists and thinkers contribute their thoughts in plain English.
John Brockman (literary agent)John Brockman (born February 16, 1941) is an American literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. He established the Edge Foundation, an online magazine exploring scientific and intellectual ideas. He was also closely connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Early lifeBrockman, born to Austrian immigrants of Jewish descent, grew up in Dorchester, which was a poor Irish Catholicenclave in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Two Cultures"The Two Cultures" is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. The lecture was published that same year in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, noted atheist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin.
Jeffrey EpsteinAmerican financier and child sex offender (1953–2019)PersonalGhislaine MaxwellMark EpsteinBirthday bookDeathLitigationLolita ExpressConnectionsAlleged connections to intelligence agenciesAndrew Mountbatten-WindsorPhoto with Virginia GiuffreGiuffre v. Prince AndrewDonald TrumpBest Friends ForeverKing of the WorldBill ClintonLes WexnerAlan DershowitzEhud BarakThorbjørn JaglandPeter MandelsonQueen Mette-Marit of NorwayBill GatesEpstein filesEpstein Files Transparency Act I/IIList of people named in the filesVictimsMaria FarmerVirginia GiuffreSarah RansomeArchive and databaseJmailEpsteinExposedWealthEstatePropertiesHerbert N. Straus HousePalm Beach mansionZorro RanchLittle Saint JamesGreat Saint JamesOrganizationsJeffrey Epstein VI FoundationThe TerraMar ProjectEdge.orgMC2 Model ManagementMedia coverageInternet memes"Epstein didn't kill himself"Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of YorkGhislaine Maxwell: Filthy RichEpstein's Shadow: Ghislaine MaxwellJeffrey Epstein: Filthy RichNobody's Girl"Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal"ScoopSurviving Jeffrey EpsteinWho Is Ghislaine Maxwell?tJeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and child sex offender.
C. P. SnowCharles Percy Snow, Baron Snow (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for "The Two Cultures", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals".
The Reality ClubThe Reality Club was a group of mostly New York City-based intellectuals that met regularly from 1981 until 1996 for seminars on a variety of topics. In January 1997, it reorganized as a web-based publication maintained by the Edge Foundation (edge.org). It was founded as a salon by literary agent John Brockman.
Steven PinkerSteven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. Pinker specializes in visual cognition and developmental linguistics, as well as a number of experimental topics.Online magazineAn online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the computer magazine Datamation. Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines.
Ian McEwanIan Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him at number 35 on its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 out of "the 100 most powerful people in British culture". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre".
IntellectualAn intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems.
ScienceSystematic endeavour to gain knowledgeScience is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable explanations about nature and society. It is driven by the scientific method: an empirical cycle that typically involves making observations, producing hypotheses, testing them with evidence, and drawing conclusions.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.